I wasn’t a judge on that event, but in general don’t take it as “you did something wrong.” A lot of the entries were VERY CLOSE, and so at some point judges have to get down to nitpicky style-related things – and it looks like they just preferred a different approach over what you did. It doesn’t mean the judges’ way is better… just that it may have been a fine point of difference.
This is one of the problems with a competitive scripting event – judging is crazy-subjective, and almost has to end up being pickier than anyone would actually be in production. We have to have a *winner* in the end, after all, but in production it’s just about whether it gets the job done.